Teaching, Birthdays, Addictions

Practicum:

–noun

(in a college or university) the part of a course consisting of practical work in a particular field.

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The time in your life when everything else falls at the wayside because all you do is teach, plan, and try to breathe.

I've said this in the past, and I'm sure i'll continue to say it, but life has been CRAZY lately! I've been teaching for the last 2 1/2 weeks and have a week and a half left. I love it, fifth graders are so funny, have you hung out with a ten year old lately? You should, they're so stinking funny.
Teaching has been great, and I'm so glad I've had the opportunity to go out in the schools, it really is my favorite time. But, I'm so ready for my own class, I'm ready to be a teacher!

Speaking of which....in 11 days I will have an interview, and I will know if and where I will have a job next year, and what grade I will be teaching.....scary, yes....exciting....heck yes! I can't think about it too much or I tend to freak out, but I am excited to just know what I will be doing for the next year. I was observed this week by Beth, my CFA aka the mother hen who comes and watches you teach and tells you the good, the bad, and any words of wisdom she has for you. While we were talking after my observation she turns to me and says, in just a short while your whole world could turn up-si-down.....AH! So true, but so scary!

Birthdays:
My beautiful roommate B Jack turned 21 last week! Shout out to her! We didn't have a birth-day as much as a birth-weekend. Saturday consisted of Tucanos and playing that night with some of her friends


Sunday we went to church, then came home and made homemade pizzas with martinellis since it was her 21st birthday afterall

and ended the night with cake, made by master chef H, I kid you not, she has made some of the most delicious cakes I have ever eaten. Then present time.

apartment <3


Finally confession time: They say the first step to curbing any addiction is to admit you have a problem....I have two.

#1 These darn things are going to be the death of me...

#2 I have an addiction to buying children's books, it's a real problem. What has made it worse you ask, I have discovered the book section of DI where they have great books for only $0.75, can you see the issue? This was most of yesterday's batch (minus five picture books that didn't make it into the picture) only $20 all in great quality....love it.

They are all either Newbery winners, or honor books, or they are books I know are really popular. Usually I end up dragging someone with me who doesn't want to be there, but this time I went with K, who is an Early Childhood Ed major, and loved it as much as me. It was a beautiful thing :)

Things I miss right now:
My family, desperately
The beautiful sunshine we've been having, where'd it go this morning?
the best friend in texas who i haven't gotten to talk to in forever
feeling like i had a life
not being stressed out.

What can you do?
Love from P-town
j

Shout out to Amy Jean

(circa 2008: looking our best)

currently listening to: Beauty and the Beast

So I have lots of pictures and fun adventures to blog about but, before I do, I need to give a shout out to the beautiful Amy Jean Carsten. This lovely lady and I have been friends for I'm not even sure how long, back in the days when we sat next to each other in seminary, her mom taught me piano and i'd spend my time waiting in her room, and we carpooled to school. And no matter what changes, we've always stayed in touch. Today she saved my butt by letting me print things at her house since I ran out of ink and because it's the sabbath that means no store runs for j. I love seeing her every week for out Bones fixes.
She's my wonderful, book sharing, bones loving friend and I don't know what I'd do without her. Here's to you Amy Jean.

Love,
j

Teaching, Crafting, Best Friends

So...it's official I'm Miss Webb again here's the badge to prove it.

I've officially completed three days of my month of student teaching at Spring Creek Elementary School here in Provo.

I am in the fifth grade there and it has been very different from my last experience. Last semester I walked in and the kids were so adorable and loving. It was great they listened, they loved to learn, well not all of them but the majority were really great. I didn't have a lot of difficulty managing them. My first day in fifth graded I was greeted with everything from excitement to "Why are you here? I hate you." Fun right! I've found as a teacher you just have to let things go, let nothing get to you otherwise you're toast. But that was the first day, things have gotten better the last couple days. I remembered how much I just love being in the classroom it's my favorite thing. I'm reminded why I'm working so hard in school.

I spent this entire weekend with the best friend A. We hadn't spent a lot of time together lately so we decided to have a girl's night friday and just spend time together. We ended up everywhere from the mall to costa vida to joanne's fabric. We decided to make hair clips. I've always admired the collection A has, and she has crafty sisters that have taught her how to make them, so she taught me. So fun. It was addicting we did it all friday, she slept over that night and then we continued our obsession into Saturday night.
Proof of our obsession:


After A left because she had a family dinner I had another girl's night with B and K. We decided to go get some goodies, rent a movie, and paint our nails together. Great girls night, right! It was fun. I love hanging out with the two of them, they are adorable and so much fun.

Church on Sunday and A decided to come to my ward. She was impressed with all the cute boys in my ward. I'm impressed with them too sometimes.
We decided to take a roommate picture so that H could send them in a letter to her missionary friend

My beautiful roomies :)

And best friend


Today after school (8-3:30 at Springcreek and 4-5:15 at BYU) I was able to talk to my Mom and Dad for a little bit. Gosh I miss them, i'm such a homebody. I realize it's been three months since i've been with them and it'll be another three until i'm home for the summer to work. Suprisingly i'm not missing them as much as i normally do, usually i get pretty homesick, but lately i'm content with my life here and know it's where i'm suppose to be. Hey i'm growing up! about time :)

So as I was writing this i realized that all i did this weekend revolves around being with my girlfriends. It's great, don't get me wrong, but when do i get a man in my life? Make things more interesting :)

love
j

a book.

So, you know that feeling you get when you can't stop reading a book, like seriously can't stop, every moment is consumed with reading those pages and you completely escape and are blissfully happy pretending you're living someone else's life?
That's why I adore reading.
the end.

there are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind - c.s. lewis

Time to blog...
Let's see this is my picture for friday...


Now i will admit, this picture was not taken on friday, but minus the beautiful trees that's what my world looked like the end of last week, we've been hit with these freak snow storms leaving feets of snow everywhere. no bueno.

Saturday consisted on working on my science lesson plan with my friend in class, it took for-freaking-ever. I kid you not. We started at 10:30 Saturday morning and didn't finish until around six on saturday night. I've never committed that much of my time to anything. well i have, but nothing science related. not fun. never again. (well until i'm a teacher i guess)

Sunday:
How cute is this face! I want to bring him home with me! But i don't think that he would be welcome in my apartment, but honestly how adorable is he?


His name is Rigby and I'm in love.
I go to my aunt's house for dinner basically every week, not always but for the most part. I love my aunt and uncle, they are the best people. It was aunt's birthday and so we were having a big birthday dinner, everyone was there. all my utah aunts and uncles and cousins. it was so fun! Well when i walked into the door this guy came running up to say hello. This is the great thing about aunt, remember when you were five and you brought an animal of some kind home and you asked if you could keep it and your mom said no? well, she's the mom who not only says yes, she's the mom who brings them home. She found this guy and his brothers and sisters running down the street. She tracked down their irresponsible idiot of an owner who didn't care about them at all and informed them she was keeping one. Enter Rigbey. Too cute right. I love it. I'm worried i might become that kind of mom too, i'll want to keep everything, but i won't want to take care of them...hmm....have to work on that one.
love
j

if i were five....

I'd eat chicken nuggets every day.
If you were to live at my apartment you would be treated to a home cooked meal almost every day of the week. As roomies we switch off cooking for each other, so basically you cook once a week for two weeks and then have the next week off. And you get meals all the days in between. Not a bad deal right? Tonight was my night for dinner and tonight's meal consisted of chicken nuggets, fries, and fruit. Now this was not your ordinary McDonalds chicken nuggets, these were legit, and required A LOT more than I thought, but they were delicious. I found the recipe here
The cook time was nice too! So enjoy and pretend like you're five again. I reccommend it, it's good for the soul.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today's picture basically sums up my life this last semester. Yes that is my nice comfortable bed, and yes, as usual, it is covered with all of my homework and stuff that needs to get done (though today's load was a lot lighter than normal). It's amazing that I haven't had a complete breakdown yet....well I had one, but that involved class sign ups not current classes.
Remember kids, stay in school, no matter how difficult it may seem.
j
ps: I got a 93.5% on my art history midterm I was convinced I was going to fail, nice right?